16. Learning To Suppress That Vague Resentment Of Older Fans
It can be difficult, getting out there and interacting with the rest of the Whovian world as a brand new fan of the series. Particularly with the seemingly endless number of fans from the classic series who are only too eager to constantly remind you that they had to wait almost a year to find out what Peter Davison's Doctor was going to be like before happily telling you where they were at the exact moment that they heard the news about the great suspension of 1986. Which seems to inevitably lead to...
15. Being Compulsively Driven To Explain The Old Series References
In detail. At great length. It's as much about getting carried away with the joy of being able to discuss the minutia of Doctor Who's history as it is about sub-textually asserting 'fan-dominance' through the implication that you're somehow 'more' of a fan by virtue of knowing who The Macra are. To be fair, this sort of thing is nothing new and all sorts of other groups of Fandom are guilty of it to a greater or lesser degree; it's the same force that drives sports fans to memorize football statistics. That said, it's still probably better if we stress the 'joy of sharing' aspect and try to keep a lid on the 'showing off' part. That way leads to...
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